Dolly Parton’s two-word secret to a 60-year marriage: Stay gone

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Dolly Parton once joked that the secret to her six-decade marriage to Carl Dean is the two-word motto “Stay gone,” a quip from a 2018 interview that resurfaced as a reminder of their long partnership, as the couple eloped in 1966 and remained together until Dean’s death in 2025.
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